Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Broschiertes Buch

My Dream Job

Beschreibung

my life is the afterlife From the author of Happy Stories, Mostly and Sergius Seeks Bacchus. Their first work originally written in English. My Dream Job is a tender playground of intellect and wit where entire worlds collide: the English and Toba Batak languages; Christian and Batak mythology; colonial violence past and present. In a voice playful, daring and not pursuing legibility above all else, Pasaribu writes the ultimate eulogy for a postcolonial dream.

Autor

Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a Toba Batak poet and writer. Their first poetry collection, Sergius Mencari Bacchus, won the first prize in the 2015 Jakarta Arts Council Poetry Manuscript Competition, and led them to win the 2017 Sastrawan Muda from the Southeast Asia Literary Council (Mastera). Their book of fiction, Happy Stories, Mostly (tr. Tiffany Tsao), gained international critical acclaim. It won the 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, and was listed for the 2022 International Booker Prize, the 2023 National Book Critics Circle's Barrios Book in Translation, the 2023 National Translation Award for Prose and the 2023 Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation. Norman was the inaugural recipient of the Patricia Kailis International Writing Fellowship, and was a Harvard University Asia Center's artist in residence for 2023-2024. They are a sixteenth-generation descendant of Siraja Bondar of the indigenous Toba Batak, North Sumatra.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tilted Axis Press
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 154g
• ISBN-13: 9781917126007
• ISBN-10: 191712600X
• Artikelnr.: 70169779